St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-15
The Master Car Builders Tackle Bust
ness During the Day and Have
Dance in the Evening.
They Will Finish Up Host of Their Work
To-Day and 90 TO Lake Park
Tomorrow.
A Special Council Committee Thinks
the Stree t Railway Should Fave
Some Things Ii Has Not.
The Court House Commission Gets the
Washington School Property
Other Minneapolis News.
THE BUILDERS OF CARS


Measures - Enjoying Them
selves.
The Master Car Builders met at Cur
tiss' hall yesterday morning, about
seventy-five members being present.
Every train during the day brought adj
ditional delegates, until now it is prob
able majority of the membership is in
the city. President Verbryck intro
duced DR.. j. ii. futile, who opened the
session with prayer. Mayor Ames wei
coined the distinguished gentlemen 20
the city in a felicitouS address, referring
to the Importance of their work and eX-
tending 10 them the freedom of the city.
The presidents annual address was
practical appeal for the careful revision
of the rules governing the interchange
of cars, and for continued tests or Safety
appliances, such as were made at Bur
lington, To-, during the past year. The
president denied the charge that rail-
road corporations care little for the life
of an employee if its protection has
tendency to lower dividends, and called
especial attention to the reports to be
submitted on automatic brakes and
couplers. He spoke of the fonr deaths
that have occurred in the association
during the year, referring with especial
kindness to his predecessor, who died
last December. the report of the sec
rotary showed gratifying increase in
the membership and influence of the
association during the past year. Sew
eral new members were admitted yes
terday. A resolution inviting the
United States and various state railway
commissions to participate in this and
future meetings was adopted. q. Al.
Rhodes, of Aurora, ILL.,, pre-
scented the report of the commit
tee on automatic brakes. The report
was quite exhaustive, describing i'll de-
tail the tests made of the AmeS, Curd,
Carpenter and other devices; tile great
difficulty. and one not thoroughly met
by any patent thus far brought ont, is
the quick application OF power. This
was best secured by electrical applia-
ances, which is Undoubtedly the right
principle. fact the committee would
have recognized by the association.
There is no perfect device for using
electricity in braking, but by indicating
its belief in the ultimate success of this
method. the association will stimulate
inventors IN this direction. The report
of the committee on automatic freight
car couplers dealt at length with an inn
nOrtant topic OF the 1000 car-cOuplerS
for which patents have been secured in
this county, no one has come into
anything like general use, showing, i'll
the opinion of the committee, very grave
difficulties to be overcome before the
requisite strength can be combined with
necessary simplicity and ease in work
ing. After detailing the results of the
recent tests made at Burlington the COM
mittea recommends that the jam ey
coupler be adopted as the standard OF
the association. including III the term,
"Janney," all couplerS made on the
same principle as the Janney, and which
will couple with it. The committee
urges the necessity of adopting an auto
matte coupler standard at this meeting,
expressing the fear that state legisla-
lures will compel railroads to use some
such devise in the near future, and by
adopting standard now great deal of
confusion and unnecessary work will be
avoided. The discussion of the paper
was deferred until to-day.
The president announced the follow
ing committees, after which the assOcia-
ton adjourned till 10 o'clock this
morning:
Nomination.-Robert Miller, Detroit: C. A.
Smith. Jersey City: George Hackney, Eliza
beth, n. j.; j. n. Burr, Milwaukee; G. +.
Wilson, Minneapolis.
Subjects for Investigation-Joseph Wood,
Fort Wayne: ". McWood, Montreal; E. D.
Wall, Columbus.
Correspondence and Resolutions-L. c.
Matthews. JetferSonyille, Ind, j. G. Barber,
Brainerd, Mimi
To Select the Next Place of Meeting-W.F
Turreif. Cleveland, o.; o. r. Wilbur, Bethle-
hem, Pa.
THE SOCIAL SIDE.
The master car builders are Judi
ciously combining pleasure with bust
ness. Yesterday their business session
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the afternoon was devoted to an eX-
tended carriage drive. Forty carriages
were required to accommodate the
party, and though the weather was
showery and the roads soft, the gentle
men, many. of them accompanied by
ladies, found much to admire along the
beautiful residence streets and avenues
of the city. The party took in Mime
haha, but owing to the bad weather
Smelling was not visited.
THE EVENING
passed very pleasantly for the visitors.
Those of them who were socially i'll
ladies, to the ordinary, whence alluring
music by .DanZ' orchestra invited to the
dance. No jollier company ever as
Sembled within the ordinary than the
car builders and their ladies. 1t was an
entirely Informal party, the gentlemen
in business suits and the ladies wearing
light evening dresses. Fun was the
order of the evening, and the hilarity
with which gray-haired men and their
wives, no less than the younger people.
entered into the spirit of the hour,
would have done credit to happy COM
pany of boys and girls. A toothsome
collation. was served in the club
room at II, and the entertain
ment was as near perfection as
the high temperature would permit.
The rOtunda presented an animated
scene throughout the evening. Every
one of the great number of car appli-
anceS was in charge of man whose
special fOEte was the explanation of his
machine. and he got in his work on
everybody that looked in the least like
a car builder. Many of the delegates
gathered in groups to discuss the work
of the day. while some found quiet
game of billiards best suited to the time.
To-day will be the heaviest working
day of the convention. The discussion
of the report Oh automatic car couplings
will come up this morning, and the re-
vision of rules for car interchange is the
special order. Several interesting re-
ports will be presented. In the even
ing the delegates, with their ladies, will
attend the Jubilee singers concert at
o'clock the visitors and their ladies will
go to Lake Park, via the Minneapolis d
ST. Louis, and after tour of the lower
lake on the Belle of St. Louis, an elab-
crate lunch at the Lake Park hotel will
be followed by an informal hop.